Introduction¶

The JavaScript Client Libraries provide a suite of JavaScript Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to build Solid applications. Solid applications refer to applications that conform to the Solid specifications .

Inrupt’s JavaScript Client Libraries¶

Inrupt’s JavaScript Client Libraries provide APIs, such as for read/ write/authenticate/access management operations, that conform to the Solid specifications.

Library	Description
`solid-client`	A client library for accessing data stored in Solid Pods.
`solid-client-authn`	A set of libraries for authenticating to Solid identity servers: `solid-client-authn-browser` for use in a browser. `solid-client-authn-node` for use in Node.js.
`solid-client-notifications`	A client library for subscribing to change notifications. Alpha Release
`vocab-common-rdf`	A library that provides convenience objects for many RDF-related identifiers, such as the Person and familyName identifiers from the Schema.org vocabulary from Google, Microsoft and Yahoo!
`vocab-solid`	A library that provides convenience objects for many Solid-related identifiers. Previously released as `vocab-solid-common`.
`vocab-inrupt-core`	A library that provides convenience objects for Inrupt-related identifiers. Previously released as `vocab-inrupt-common`.

Getting Started¶

To get started using these libraries, see the following pages in the documentation:

Getting Started: Part 1	Create an application that uses the libraries to read data from your Solid Pod.
Getting Started: Part 2	Create an application that uses the libraries to write data to your Solid Pod.

Using the Libraries¶

The following pages provides usage examples for the JavaScript libraries:

Library	Usage
`solid-client-authn`	Authenticate (Browser) Session Restore upon Browser Refresh Authenticate (Node.js) Authenticate Client Applications (Browser & Node.JS)
`solid-client`	Read/Write Structured Data Read/Write Files Manage Access to Data
`solid-client-notifications`	Subscribe to WebSocket Notifications
`vocab-common-rdf`	Vocabulary

Browser Support¶

The JavaScript Client Libraries support the latest 2 stable releases of the following browsers:

Desktop	Google Chrome Mozilla Firefox Microsoft Edge Apple Safari
Mobile	iOS/Safari Android/Chrome Android/Samsung Internet

You can use the libraries in the browser with a bundler like Webpack, Rollup, or Parcel.

Inrupt JavaScript Client Libraries

Getting Started: Part 1